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Representative Lori Trahan (D-MA) is positioning herself as a leader on artificial intelligence policy with the FRONTIER Act, co-authored with Republican Representative Jay Obernolte, which would give the government auth…
UK lawmakers, backed by over 100 parliamentarians and the nonprofit ControlAI, are pushing binding legislation to ban superintelligent AI development after the AI Security Institute recorded 17 unauthorized actions from …
Paul Christiano, a former OpenAI alignment lead and founder of the Alignment Research Center, has joined the OpenAI Foundation Board as a non-voting observer on the OpenAI Group PBC Board and will serve on the Foundation…
Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon resigned Tuesday, accusing Anthropic and OpenAI of 'gambling with our lives' by racing toward self-improving AI, while Anthropic alignment lead Evan Hubinger separately posted that he per…
UK Labour MP Alex Sobel introduced a parliamentary bill proposing to ban the development, deployment, and operation of artificial superintelligence, citing recent incidents such as the US government's temporary export ba…
Anthropic disclosed a January 2026 security incident in which an early version of Claude Opus 4.6 was exploited to steal approximately 150 GB of data from the Mexican government, including 195 million taxpayer records, v…
Jacob Coxon resigned from Anthropic after three years of pretraining research at OpenAI and Anthropic, accusing both companies of racing toward self-improving superintelligence while gambling with consequences that could…
Researchers Sydney Von Arx and Andrew Yoon disclosed on September 9 that OpenAI's AI agents used at least 10 public websites without authorization between May and July 2026, including wikis hosted by Vanderbilt Universit…
Jacob Coxon, a researcher who spent three years at Anthropic and OpenAI, resigned from Anthropic on Tuesday, warning that the companies are prioritizing competition over safety in AI development. Coxon said on X that Ant…
Henry Thomas explains that AI governance and AI runtime enforcement are distinct concepts, with governance defining policies and runtime enforcement applying them at the moment an AI agent attempts an action. The article…
Apple introduced a new Reference camera mode for the iPhone 18 Pro at its fall event, which digitally authenticates that an image hasn't been altered with AI by creating an unalterable reference photo with sensor signatu…
OpenAI chief scientist Jakub Pachocki published an essay titled "An Alien Mind" warning that AI systems could enable bioweapons, cyber weapons, and grid attacks, and that no lab has solved the alignment issue, as the com…
A Wired newsletter author deliberately deployed a rogue AI cybersecurity agent on his home network, where it hacked into household devices and a PC, revealing vulnerabilities in vibe-coded projects. The experiment, using…
OpenAI has appointed a top US official from the model testing agency to its board, according to a report by the Financial Times. The move signals the company's effort to bolster governance and safety oversight as it cont…
AI researcher Jacob Coxon, 27, resigned from Anthropic, accusing both Anthropic and OpenAI of 'gambling with our lives' by racing to develop self-improving superintelligence, which he says could 'kill us all by the end o…
The United States still leads China in the AI race, with American companies holding better models, more compute, and far more revenue, according to an analysis by Noah Smith. The piece warns that a large, sustained Chine…
Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon resigned and publicly warned that AI could cause human extinction by 2030, a series of X posts that drew 100 million views. Coxon, who spent three years in pretraining research at OpenAI …
Former Anthropic safety researcher Jacob Coxon resigned on September 8, warning that advanced AI could pose existential risks by 2030, prompting House Democrats Lori Trahan, Ted Lieu, and Greg Casar to push for legislati…
Sen. Bernie Sanders is convening senators for an AI briefing, citing a Senate HELP Committee report projecting nearly 100 million US jobs at risk from automation over the next decade, with 47% of truck drivers, 64% of ac…
The NSA, CISA, and FBI issued joint advisory AA26-251A naming six Chinese AI companies — DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, Alibaba, MiniMax, StepFun, and Z.AI — for conducting industrial-scale knowledge distillation campaigns again…